Movies:
Breakfast of Champions
DVD Release
- Release Date: 2000
- Widescreen [1.85:1]
- Theatrical trailer
- French-language track [2.0 Dolby Surround]
- 5.1 Surround
- Rating:
- Genre: Comedy Drama
- Movie Type: Absurd Comedy, Satire
- Themes: Midlife Crises
- Director: Alan Rudolph
- Main Cast: Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly
- Release Year: 1999
- Country: US
- Run Time: 110 minutes
- MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In a small American town called Midland City, Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) -- a loyal father, a successful car dealer, and a respected member of the community --lives with his wife Celia (Barbara Hershey), who's addicted to pills and TV shows, and his son Bunny (Lukas Haas), who is a weakling. What's more, his best friend and employee Harry Le Sabre (Nick Nolte) is a paranoid red-lace-lingerie fetishist. Dwayne finds short-term consolation in the arms of his secretary and mistress, Francine (Glenne Headley). As the American Dream slowly becomes his nightmare, Hoover begins to retreat into a fantasy world, filled with strange voices and fearful visions. It takes only the arrival of third-rate science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney) -- whose novels are turned into fourth-rate porno comics -- at the Midland City Art Festival for things to explode. Hoover's only hope is Kilgore, whom he has raised to the status of a guru in his fantasies. However, the two men meet when time, space, and reality have already lost their meaning. Now it is only nonsense that makes sense and madness that reigns; the American dream has turned into lunacy. Breakfast of Champions, which had its world premiere during the 49th International Berlin Film Festival in 1999, is the outcome of a project in the making for over twenty years. Director Alan Rudolph wrote the script when the novel by Kurt Vonnegut was first published. However, it took all this time (and perhaps the casting of someone like Bruce Willis in order to get it financed) for the project to be realized. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, All Movie GuideCast
- Bruce Willis - Dwayne Hoover
- Albert Finney - Kilgore Trout
- Nick Nolte - Harry Le Sabre
- Barbara Hershey - Celia Hoover
- Glenne Headly - Francine Pefko
Lukas Haas - Bunny Hoover; Omar Epps - Wayne Hoobler; Buck Henry - Fred T. Barry; Vicki Lewis - Grace Le Sabre; Ken Campbell - Eliot Rosewater/Gilbert; Jake Johannsen - Bill Bailey; Will Patton - Moe; Chip Zien - Andy Wojeckowzski; Owen Wilson - Monte Rapid; Alison Eastwood - Maria Maritmo; Shawnee Smith - Bonnie MacMahon; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Commercials Director
